Putting Cham in shower

[codiwatkins]

what do yall mean by this?? Like literally putting him in the shower??? I have been trying to see if my chams behavior is noraml by going through all the threads becasue i cant seem to get people to respond to my own threads. anyways from what I gather he could possibly be dehydrated? so i was gonna try the shower thing? HOW DO I DO THIS?

 

[Paul R]

Well you literally put the cham in the shower, Put the cham on a perch or thick branch and run the water over your cham. Be very carefull with the temperature though, very carefull

 

[codiwatkins]

do you mean like very luke warm water??


thank you for responding!!

 

[Bradkc]

For my cham I get his favorite plant and put it on the floor in the shower. Remove all soaps and hair products from the shower so you don't risk that getting in his eyes. Then just turn the shower on and face it towards the wall letting the water spray off the wall onto him and his plant. Use warm/hot water to get the humidity up in the bathroom and keep the door shut. My guy loves it and I always see him drink in the shower. Have fun!

 

[Paul R]

Oh and run the water on your cham for about 10 min, be carefull this can stress them also but is a very usefull method when working with dehydration

 

[Paul R]

Yes using his plant will reduce stress. The water should be "comfortable" meaning not cold enough for him to run away and not hot enough to kill him. I hate this method although it is very usefull

 

[SoCaliSon]

If you have a drainage on your cage, I would just up the dosage and give a few longer mistings a day right in his cage to avoid the shower thing. I use different methods now. I have a few who loved it, and a few who really hated it... including me. Big waste of water, and people will tell you to leave your cham like this for 30 or so minutes while they are only benefiting from the mist bouncing off the walls.

How are you misting?
How often and for how long are you misting?
Do you have a dripper?
Why do you think your cham is dehydrated?

Dehydration is an easy thing to avoid and even treat without having to put your cham into a shower. Regular mistings throughout the day, a dripper, and some easy way to catch the water, and dehydration worries are a thing of your past. All the soap and stuff in the shower, and the loud strange environment for a cham... If you can get it done in their cage that is the place to do it. Every once in a while if I am worried about over watering the cages plants I will pick one and take the cham to the shower... But I use a Pump Pressure hand mister and set it there to provide the mist, come back in a few minutes to give t a few a more pumps then you are set, and using about 1/100th of the water you would use showering them with the shower head.

~Joe

 

[codiwatkins]

If you have a drainage on your cage, I would just up the dosage and give a few longer mistings a day right in his cage to avoid the shower thing. I use different methods now. I have a few who loved it, and a few who really hated it... including me. Big waste of water, and people will tell you to leave your cham like this for 30 or so minutes while they are only benefiting from the mist bouncing off the walls.

How are you misting?
How often and for how long are you misting?
Do you have a dripper?
Why do you think your cham is dehydrated?

Dehydration is an easy thing to avoid and even treat without having to put your cham into a shower. Regular mistings throughout the day, a dripper, and some easy way to catch the water, and dehydration worries are a thing of your past. All the soap and stuff in the shower, and the loud strange environment for a cham... If you can get it done in their cage that is the place to do it. Every once in a while if I am worried about over watering the cages plants I will pick one and take the cham to the shower... But I use a Pump Pressure hand mister and set it there to provide the mist, come back in a few minutes to give t a few a more pumps then you are set, and using about 1/100th of the water you would use showering them with the shower head.

~Joe

Well i really dont honestly know like i said i have posted a couple of times and noone really seems to comment my post.Unless they are about things that are easy to talk about!

Anyways, I have had him for a week and one day. I still have not witnessed him eat anything. I put 6 crickets in his cage and some...like 3 are gone. but I do have live plants in his cage so they could be hiding out in the plants. I also have a feeder cup with 5 superworms in it and he hasnt touched them.
In a previous post a few people stated that he was just getting adjusted, but when i got home yesterday i took him outside to get some sun( this is the first time to have him out of his cage) and he seems to have lost weight to me. His skin seems loose. His color is still very bright and he is very active. when i got home around 7:45 he was asleep, which also worried me......OK and now to answer your questions!!

[How are you misting? I mist with a spray bottle 5 times a day.(I want to get a mist king BUT right now im strapped for cash!)

How often and for how long are you misting? I mist for a few minutes until i can see water collected on the leaves of the plants

Do you have a dripper? yes i do have a little dripper it is postioned where water falls onto the leaves on a vine which then runs into the live plants( im only doing this until i can install a drain in the bottom of his condo)

Why do you think your cham is dehydrated. Well mainly because of the loose skin i noticed yesterday......thats is really my only reasoning

I wanted to add that there is a 10 hour time period that im not at home while im at work. I do have the little dripper and a humidifier which are both active the entire time I am not at home. i refill them both the 2 days that Im gona for these extended periods of time.

 

[SoCaliSon]

Keep an eye on his droppings. They should be a brown segment attached to a white segment of "urate". If this Urate is turning yellow he is in need of hydration. A white urate means he is healthily hydrated.

I looked at your other posts and everything seems in line unless i have missed something.

Also... I would try to offer more food. What you mentioned doesn't seem like enough. He could just be settling in, and them again some are closet eaters, and won't eat with you watching them. I would try to build a cup to keep them crickets in so you can monitor the intake a little more. This Kind of feeder keeper works great.

~Joe

 

[codiwatkins]

can i put the superworms in there as well or do i need to make a diff one for them???